Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2013

Winter and First Year Reflections

Hmm, no post since September.  I wonder why? Oh yeah, because our garden looks like this: We got an early cold front.  Well, maybe not early, I have no idea.  It was cold enough that I ripped out our tomatoes, and between that and the mildew, the garden was toast. Lessons Learned?  Where to start. Good Things: -We ate out of our garden.  I told myself I'd be happy if I got onions and zucchini.  We did.  We even got small amounts of lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, watermelon, pumpkin, and spaghetti squash (the pumpkin and spaghetti squash didn't get eaten by us...whole other story). -I have a newer found respect for farmers.  I always knew farmers work hard to fill our grocery store and fridges, but I really feel, and I'm sorry if this is snobby, until you do it yourself you really don't know just how hard it is.  Especially organic.  The fact we ever even survived as a species boggles my mind at this point.  Mildew decimate...